prolix

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The world premiere, “Have We Met?!,” choreographed by Juliano Nunes, is a 33-minute, two-part, prolix affair for two featured couples.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 3, 2025

A certain type of actor thrives in these prolix circumstances.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2021

On airplanes, she said, she could quickly shut down the annoying small talk of prolix seatmates when they asked, “What do you do?”

From Washington Post • Jul. 13, 2021

But the notoriously prolix president - whose 2012 speech for Barack Obama ran nearly 50 minutes - was kept to five minutes during the tight, all-online convention.

From Washington Times • Aug. 18, 2020

Rigmarole, rig′ma-rōl, n. a repetition of foolish words: a long story: balderdash.—adj. prolix, tedious.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various